LEDS GP - Website clone with interactive map

Purpose

The Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP) aims to advance climate-resilient, low-emission development around the world by linking practitioners and policymakers. It achieves this through three regional networks and six sector working groups. The previous site was not meeting the needs of their stakeholders who wanted to present information for each region and working group.

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People

The CDKN project and website are managed by PwC and Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

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Process

ODI consulted with the different users of the LEDS GP site to identify ways to improve the website content. They could see that the functionality from the other site they manage cdkn.org would cater for many of these needs. They asked us to reuse the CDKN site with a new design to fit in with the LEDS GP branding.

After developing the site with the new design we also expanded the functionality to include a world map showcasing the LEDS GP programs.

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Code

The LEDS GP website is administered though WordPress and is written in PHP. The maps are developed using the Google Charts API, a Javascript tool for creating interactive charts and data visualisations. For the CDKN site we created a new WordPress plugin to suggest tags for your posts, using the Climate Tagger API, which is available on Github.

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